The diabetes drug you've heard of for 60 years just revealed a secret — it's been working on your brain all along.

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

Metformin has been used for years to help people with Type 2 Diabetes control their blood sugar. Now, scientists have ...

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...

When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Drug Education Council is putting their heads together to help students think smarter about brain health. Standing 12 feet tall and stretching 18 feet long, the megabrain is ...

Metformin Study: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in the US found in their study that metformin helps in controlling ...

Psychedelics activate a specific serotonin receptor. At least 14 different receptors are known where the neurotransmitter serotonin binds. Psychedelics have the highest affinity for the 2A receptor, ...

Oral contraceptives have been effectively preventing pregnancy for more than 65 years, but it has only been in the past 10 that scientists – many of them women – have started to seriously examine what ...

A new study reveals metformin acts directly on the brain, raising fresh concerns about its wider effects. While effective for ...

Over the years, I’ve witnessed a handful of close friends destroy their lives because of an addiction to drugs. Of all the various drugs my peers have used, heroin and crystal meth (methamphetamine) ...